Skal Labissiere

Skal Labissière (French: [labisjɛʁ]; born March 18, 1996) is a Haitian professional basketball player for the Portland Trail Blazers of the National Basketball Association (NBA). He graduated from Lausanne Collegiate School in Memphis, Tennessee before playing one season of college basketball for Kentucky. Labissière has also played for the Sacramento Kings.\n', '

Labissière was born in Port-au-Prince, Haiti. His basketball career began at the Collège Canado-Haïtien, a junior-senior high school in Port-au-Prince, which participated in school championships organized by the Comité Interscolaire de Basket-ball Amateur (CIBA), and the Association de Basket-ball Interscolaire (ASI). During the 2010 Haiti earthquake, his family\'s home collapsed with Labissière, his mother and his brother inside. All three survived, but were trapped under the debris for three hours. Labissière\'s legs were tr…